Iron Man 3 – Quotes
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Stark: “A famous man once said, ‘We create our own demons.’ What it means, I don’t really know, but he said it. Now I say it. So, now it’s being said by two really great guys. …Whatever happened to him? I wish I knew. Did he conquer them? What was he like? Did he have armor like mine?… Anyway, bottom line: I said it, because HE said it.”
Stark: “The old days—never thought they’d come back to haunt me. Why would they? I had just created demons, and I didn’t even know it.”
Stark: “Come on. I ain’t scared of you. I’m the best.”
Jarvis dryly comments, after things go very wrong for Stark: “As always sir, a pleasure watching you work.”
Stark to a young kid: “I loved you in a Christmas story, by the way.”
Happy: “What I’m saying is the human element of HR is our biggest vulnerability. They must be phased out immediately.”
“Failure is the fog through which we glimpse triumph.”
Stark: “My suits are…”
Pepper interrupts: “Machines.”
Stark: “They’re part of me.”
Pepper: “Distractions.”
Stark: “Maybe.”
Stark: “I have to protect the one thing I can’t live without. You.”
The Mandarin: “True story: Fortune cookies look and sound Chinese, but are actually American – which is why they’re hollow, full of lies and leave a bad taste in your mouth.”
Harley: “Mom went to the diner and Dad left to get scratchers. I guess he won because that was 6 years ago.”
Stark: “Dad’s leave. No need to be a p**** about it.”
Harley regarding the scorch marks from a bombing: “People said the marks are the souls going to heaven, and he didn’t got o heaven, so he didn’t get a shadow.”
Harley: “Does this shadow subject make you edgy? Do you need a paper bag to breathe into? Are there medications that you should be on?”
Stark: “You walked right into this one: I’ve dated hotter chicks than you.”
Brandt: “That all you got?? Cheap tricks and a cheesy one liner?”
Stark: “Sweetheart, that could be the name of my autobiography.”
Stark: “That’s the thing about smart guys – we always cover our a**es.”
Stark to Harley: “A: I saved you first. B: Thanks. Sort of. C: When you save someone, don’t be a putz.”
Harley: “We’re…connected.”
Harley: “So now you’re just gonna leave me here? Like my Dad?”
Stark: “Yeah.”
Harley: “I’m cold.”
Stark: “Wait – you’re manipulating me. You know how I can tell? Because we’re…connected.”
Stark: “A bomb’s not a bomb when it’s a misfire.”
“The rocket performed perfectly—it just landed in the wrong place.”
Harley: “You’re a mechanic, right? Why don’t you just build something?”
“You got a minute to live. Fill it with words.”
“You should’ve pressed the panic button.”
“Well, I panicked, but then I handled it.”
“You know what my old man used to say to me? The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
Aldrich Killian: “The second you give evil a face, you give people a target.”
Stark calls The Mandarin, “Sir Laurence Oblivier”
Aldrich Killian: “I want to give you the same gift you gave to me: Desperation.”
Stark: “You are a maniac.”
Aldrich Killian: “No, I am a visionary. But I do own a maniac. He takes the stage tomorrow at 9.”
“Pony tail express.”
“You…you breathe fire??? OK.”
One of Killian’s security guards as he surrenders to Stark: “Honestly, I hate working here. They are so weird.”
Stark to The Mandarin: “Here’s how it works, Meryl Streep. Tell us where Pepper is and he’ll stop doing that.”
“There’s a chunky monkey. Let’s get him!”
Stark: “Nice team effort. Good work. Excellent. Go us!”
To Stark, looking at his fleet of Iron Men: “This is how you’ve been managing your down time, huh?”
Stark: “Everybody needs a hobby.”
Pepper: “Oh my gosh…that was really violent.”
Pepper: “Who’s the hot mess now?”
Stark: “Debatable. Probably tipping your way right now.”
Pepper: “Am I going to be OK?”
Stark: “No. You’re with me. It will always be a disaster.”
Stark: “That’s what I do. I fix things.”
Stark: “Start something pure. Something exciting. Then come the mistakes. The compromises. We create our own demons.”
Stark: “As promised I got it sorted out. Took some thinking. But then I thought, ‘Why stop there?’”
Stark, narrating: “So, if we’re to wrap this up and tie it with a bow…whatever… My armor—it wasn’t a hobby, a distraction, it was a cocoon.”
Stark: “You can take away my house, all my tricks and toys, the thing you can take away: I AM Iron Man.”